Ecosystems 1B

Question 1

What is a component?

Answer 1

A part of something

Question 2

What is abiotic?

Answer 2

Nonliving things like soil

Question 3

What is biotic?

Answer 3

Living things like plants

Question 4

What is flora?

Answer 4

Vegetation or a particular region, habitat or time period

Question 5

What is fauna

Answer 5

Animals of a particular region, habitat or time period

Question 6

What is biodiversity?

Answer 6

The variety of plant and animal life in a particular habitat

Question 7

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 7

The community of biotic and abiotic components that interact with each other and the environment

Question 8

What is a large scale global ecosystem?

Answer 8

Very large ecosystem, also called biomes and an example is a rainforest

Question 9

What is climate?

Answer 9

Average precipitation and temperature over many years

Question 10

What is distributed mean?

Answer 10

How something is spread out

Question 11

What is the weather definition?

Answer 11

Our to our changes in precipitation and temperature

Question 12

What is the latitude?

Answer 12

Imagine the horizontal line around earth

Question 13

What is longitude?

Answer 13

Imagine vertical lines around earth

Question 14

What is altitude?

Answer 14

How high a place is above sea level

Question 15

What are the characteristics of tropical rainforest?

Answer 15

Distributed along equator in between tropic of cancer and tropic of Capricorn, concentrated insulation at equator, temperatures are high and warm moist air rises, lots of evaporation and precipitation, largest rainforest is Amazon in South America, 7,000,000 km³

Question 16

What is the characteristic of a hot desert?

Answer 16

Distributed along tropics of cancer and along tropical Capricorn, air rises at equator and is pushed north and south, air cools high up in atmosphere and sinks, air warms as it falls and no clouds can form causing our desert climate and dry, largest hot desert Sahara in Africa, 9,000,000 km²

Question 17

What is the characteristic of tundra?

Answer 17

Tundra global ecosystem, distributed across northern America and northern Asia, high latitudes above 60° in, insulation is less concentrated so temperatures are below freezing most of the year, very few plants and animals survive here

Question 18

What is the characteristics of polar regions?

Answer 18

polar global ecosystems are distributed in the Arctic and Antarctica, at high latitudes less insulation is concentrated here so temperatures are mostly below freezing, windy and very little precipitation, soil covered in ice throughout the year, species of moss, algae and lichen survive the heart conditions and few other plants can survive so low biodiversity

Question 19

What is the characteristics of alpine region?

Answer 19

Alpine global Sis ecosystem, distributed in mountainous areas with high altitude such as the Alps, as altitude increases temperature decreases, every 100 m increase in altitude temperature decreases by 1°C

Question 20

What is interrelationships mean?

Answer 20

How to remove things are linked to each other

Question 21

What are producers?

Answer 21

Plants that absorb energy from the sun by photosynthesis

Question 22

What are consumers

Answer 22

Organisms that get energy from eating producers or other consumers

Question 23

What are decomposers?

Answer 23

Bacteria or fungus that gets energy vibrating down dead tissue from things like fallen leaves and recycle it back into the environment

Question 24

What is the food chain?

Answer 24

Linear connections between organisms that rely on each other for food

Question 25

What is a food web

Answer 25

Complex hierarchy of plants and animals relying on each other for food

Question 26

What is a nutrient cycling?

Answer 26

Organisms extract minerals for growth from soil or water and pass them on through the food chain and then back to the soil and water

Question 27

What is a case study on small scale ecosystems in the UK?

Answer 27

Epping Forest, deciduous woodlands in Northeast London, wide variety tree species, primary consumers including insects, small mammals and deer along with 38 species of bird, secondary consumers like owls and foxes, 700 species of fungi, over 100 lakes to provide habitats for fauna species

Question 28

What is the impact of changing one ecosystem component?

Answer 28

Removing one species affects entire food web, natural factors damage ecosystems like droughts and fires, human factors damage ecosystems like changing pH level and altering nutrient levels